Perla Abrego. (Mexico) MA in Letras Españolas, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, (2001) and MA in Colombian Literature, Universidad de Antioquia, (2004).
Sandra Alvarado Bordas (Santo Domingo, República Dominicana) B.A in Humanities and Philosophy (Magna cum laude) Pedro Francisco Bonó Philosophic Institute, INTEC (Summer 2005) Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Minor in Theater and Performance at the National School of Dramatic Arts (Summer 2006) Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Academic interests: Focus on “self-destructive” figuration of the feminine subject in Latin America women writers like Clarice Lispector and Alejandra Pizarnik. Other interests: Representations of the bodies in contemporary Latin America Theater (dramatist such as Enrique Buenaventura) and the influence of Eugenio Barba´s theatre anthropology in Latin America groups such as Yuyachkani. Publications: “La dramaturgia de Carlos Acevedo Gautier” in Anuario Pedagógico 11 (2007): 97-113. (Santo Domingo) and http://www.cielonaranja.com/acevedosandra.htm
Heather Bishop McRae.(USA). BA in Romance of Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2003). MA in Romance Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2005). E-mail: heather.bishop@vanderbilt.edu
Laura C. Brown: (North Carolina): BA Hispanic Studies, East Carolina University (2004). MA in Spanish, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2007), MA thesis: “Mirrors, Masks, and the ‘Self’ Deferred: A Psychoexistential Reading of Juan Francisco Manzano and Luiz Gama.”Interests: Contemporary Latin American narrative, autobiography/self-writing and the relationship between language and memory, Afro-Latino Literature, Comparative Inter-American Studies.Awards: FIPSE-CAPSE grant, Florianópolis, Brazil (2006).Email: laura.c.brown@vanderbilt.edu
Denise Callejas. (Kissimmee, Florida)MA in Spanish, Florida State University.
Elena Deanda Camacho. (México, Veracruz). B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature.Veracruzana University, Xalapa, Ver., Mexico (2001). Senior thesis: En versos el pensamiento: del trobar occitano al trovar jarocho. Studies in Philosophy and History of Religions in the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM, México D.F.) and the Mircea Eliade Institute (Xalapa, Ver.). Academic interests: medieval philology and contemporary folklore studies, specially the medieval courtly poets in Southern France and colonial and contemporary folk poets in Southern Mexico. My current focus of research is metapoetic, metafiction and metaphysics in Latin American women writers such as Clarice Lispector, Alejandra Pizarnik and Rosario Castellanos. Awards: Study Abroad Grant 2005-2006, National Funding for Culture and Arts (FONCA, Mexico); Mexico-France Exchange 2002-2003, Ministry of Education (France); Young CreatorsFellowship 1996-1997, National Center for Culture and Arts (CNCA, Mexico), and State Short Story Contest 1995-1996, (DGEMSyS, Mexico). Publications: “En versos el pensamiento: la metapoética del trovar” in First Congress of Paremiology, 2005, Zamora, Mich., Mexico: ColMIch (forthcoming). Fiction anthologies: Letras y Voces, 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Novelarte (forthcoming); 15 años de cuento, 2004, Xalapa: DGEMSyS and Ganadores del Certamen Estatal de Cuento, 1996, Xalapa: DGEMSyS. I have published a compilation of short stories: Breve Crónica del Deseo, 2003. Xalapa: Durandarte Editores. E-mail: elena.deanda@vanderbilt.edu
G. Cory Duclos. (Pleasant Grove, Utah). BA in Spanish, Weber State University (2006). MA, The University of Nevada, Reno (2008). Interests: Transatlantic studies during the early modern and colonial period as well as Chilean culture and literature. Recent presentations: “A Woman’s Place is in the Subtext': A Socio-Historical Approach to the Role of Women in the Short Stories of Jorge Edwards.” 62nd RMMLA Convention (Fall 2008). E-mail g.cory.duclos@vanderbilt.edu
Francisco Flores-Cuautle. (México). BA in Modern Languages, Benemérita Universidad de Puebla, México (1998). MA in Spanish Literature, University of Arkansas (2004). Currently I am researching on Mexican Literature, 19th and 20th centuries; Nation, Nationalism and Identity; Transatlantic romanticism and liberalism. Additional Interests: Latin American Foundational Fictions, Memories, Literatures of Exile, and Latin American Radio, Television, and Film. Publications: “El Taco Árabe como elemento de identidad poblana” with Silvestre Angoa. Mirada Antropológica 1(2003):77-92. Awards: 2006 CLAIS-CFA Latin American Summer Research Grant (Vanderbilt University). E-mail: francisco-flores-cuautle@vanderbilt.edu
Antón García Fernández. (Spain).BA in English and North American Literature, Universidad de Vigo, Spain. Summa Cum Laude (2003). Interests: Spanish Golden Age Literature, its reception in America, and its relationship with Weltliteratur, particularly the English and French literary tradition. I am also interested in Galician Literature. Publications"Review of Tennessee Williams: A Casebook, by Robert F. Gross" in Jesús G. Maestro (ed.). Theatralia 5. Vilagarcía de Arousa: Mirabel Editorial,2003: 531-533.. Awards: Antonio Solla Casalderrey Award for Excellence in French, Alliance Francaise, Vigo (1999), University of Vigo Award for Academic Excellence (2003). E-Mail: anton.garcia@vanderbilt.edu
Tugba Gursel Sevin. (Istabul, Turkey). MA in Spanish, Florida Atlantic University.
Anna-Lisa Halling (Ramona, CA) BA in Spanish, minor in Portuguese, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (2005).MA in Spanish Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (2007).Master’s thesis: An Edition of the Villancicos of Sor Violante do Céu.Interests:Spanish Golden Age Theatre, Early Modern Women Writers, Comparative Iberian Studies. Publications:Book review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (forthcoming).“A Critique of War: José Ortega y Gasset’s La deshumanización del arte and Fernando Arrabal’s Pic-Nic.”La Marca Hispánica 17.Brigham Young University (2006): 63-71.“The Modern Golden Age of Theater.”“El caballero de Olmedo” Play Guide.Brigham Young University (2005): 22-24.“Matrimony, Convent or Death: The Life of a Lady.”“El muerto disimulado” Play Guide.Brigham Young University (2004): 41-43. Presentations: “Convent Writing and Theatre: A Comparison of Sor Juana and Sor Violante,” presented at the 2008 conference of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.and“Recovering Sor Violante do Céu’s Villancicos and Uncovering their Theatricality,” presented at the 2006 conference of the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
James R. Krause. (Salt Lake City, UT) MA Portuguese, Vanderbilt University (2007); MA Spanish, Brigham Young University (2005); BA Spanish cum laude, Brigham Young University (2003). I am currently working on my dissertation, “Translation Failure and the Influence and Reception of Latin American Literature in the United States.” Interests: 20th Century Spanish American and Brazilian narrative, Comparative Latin American Literature, Inter-American literature, and Translation Studies. Publications: “Enucleated Eyes in ‘Sem Olhos’ and ‘O Capitão Mendoça’ by Machado de Assis.” Border Crossings: Boundaries of Cultural Interpretation. Ed. David P. Wiseman and Pablo Martínez Diente. (Forthcoming, Fall 2009). “Ontological Musings: Principles of ‘Esboço para Tabacaria’ in ‘Tabacaria’ by Álvaro de Campos." La Marca Hispánica 16 (2005): 53-65. Awards: Tinker Field Research Grant (2009–São Paulo, Brazil); Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship (2006–Rio de Janeiro); FLAS Academic Year Fellowship (2004-05); FLAS Summer Fellowship (2004–Lisbon, Portugal); El Premio Gonzalo Rojas for best critical essay, “Ontological Musings.”
John Maddox. (Georgia). MA in Romance Languages, University og Georgia.
Pablo Martinez. (Spain) BA in English, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, España (2001), MA in Hispanic Literatures, West Virgina University, Morgantown, WV, USA (2003). Research interests: Trans-poetic protocols of Modernism and Vanguardism. Currently I am researching on Las épicas de construcción literaria en procesos de violencia, narcotráficoy terrorismo en Latinoamérica. Awards: Leonardo da Vinci European Union Programme (Dublin, 2001, Prague, 2004), AIESEC Educational Branch Award (University of Gdansk, Poland, 2004-2005). E-amil: pablo.martinez@vanderbilt.edu
Jason Thomas Parker. (USA) BA in Spanish/ Russian, Vanderbilt University, (2006). E-mail: Jason.t.parker@vanderbilt.edu
Rosie Marie Seagraves. (Milford, Delaware) BA English, Foreign Languages and Literatures. (Spanish), University of Delaware. rosie.m.seagraves@vanderbil.t.edu
Gretchen Susan Selcke. (Edina, Minnestota). BA in History and Spanish, Bowdoin College(Suma Cum Laude) (Phi Beta Kappa) (2000). Honors Theses: “El amor cortés en La Celestina: convenciones literarias en un mundo en transición” (Bowdoin College 2000); “Río de la Plata in Transition, 1776-1820: Criollo Conflict in Buenos Aires and Montevideo” (Bowdoin College, 2000). Academic Interests: Contemporary Spanish Caribbean narrative, U.S. Latino literature, Afro-hispanic literature, Contemporary Spanish American narrative, comparative studies in narrative, politics of identity and race, and literary theory. Publications: “‘Consecrated Places:’ Interview with Afro-Dominican Painter Antonio Carreño.” Afro-Hispanic Review 24.2 (Fall 2005):181-90.El amor cortés en La Celestina: las convenciones literarias en mundo en transición (Published by Bowdoin College, 2000). Awards, Honors and Fellowships: E. Inman Fox Graduate Teaching Award (May 2008), Center for the Americas Graduate Scholar Summer Fellowship (Summer 2006), Center for the Americas Graduate Fellow (2006-2007), Graduate Select Scholar in Arts and Science (2004), Summa Cum Laude (History and Spanish) (2000), Philip C. Bradley Spanish Prize (Bowdoin) (2000), Class of 1868 Prize for excellence in oration (2000), PhiBeta Kappa (1999), Commencement Speaker (2000), Sarah and James Bowdoin Book Scholar (1996-2000). Assistant Editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review (2005-2006), member of the Afro-Hispanic Review Editorial Board (2005-present), research assistant for Professor William Luis. gretchen.s.selcke@vanderbilt.edu
Camille Jordan Sutton. (Toronto, Canada). MA in Hispanic Studies, University on British Columbia.
